Splendid Pastoral Wife

Chapter 3
"Well, my mother was not very good at cooking in the past, and sometimes she couldn't cook well." An An didn't speak, but Lele rushed to say.

"Oh, it's all my mother's poor health. From now on, my mother will cook delicious meals for you, okay?"

"Okay, okay..." The two children nodded and cheered softly.

At this time, at the village chief’s house at the east end of the village, the village chief and his wife Cao Hua were eating around the kang table. On the table were a plate of white steamed buns, two bowls of millet porridge, and a plate of dried radish. The two were talking while eating. talk.

"His father, Mrs. Su woke up a little strangely. When I sniffed her that day, she really seemed to be dead." A trace of fear flashed in Cao Hua's eyes.

"Well, this matter is weird, and I can't figure it out." The village head also showed a hesitant look on his face.

"Father, this is really bad. Could it be that Mrs. Su is possessed by a ghost? What if she comes to seek revenge on us?" Cao Hua was so scared that she knocked over the bowl in her hand on the table.

"What are you panicking about? She doesn't know what we did to her. Hey, this is bad. Three years ago, I shouldn't have coveted your distant nephew's money and let her live here and let her give birth to a child." , Now he came to us and said that the nobleman in Beijing was angry, blamed us for not torturing her to death for so long, and said that we can't tolerate her anymore, let her be dealt with as soon as possible, if the nobleman knows that she is still alive, and If there is a child, the lives of the whole village will not be guaranteed."

Although the village head pretended to be calm, he kept knocking on the pipe, which contained no smoke.

"Father, what are you talking about? The nobleman doesn't know about Mrs. Su's child?" Cao Hua's voice became louder.

"Of course I don't know. When your nephew sent her here, he didn't know she was pregnant. He only found out later. He was afraid of being accused, so he kept hiding it from the nobleman. Now that something urgent happened, the nobleman listened. He got angry when he said Mrs. Su was still alive."

"Hey, how could she, a country woman, get involved with people in Beijing?" Cao Hua was even more frightened when she heard the words. After all, she was a woman from the country and had never seen a big scene. This matter instantly fell on her shoulders like a mountain. superior.

"Those things are not something we ordinary people like Shengdou can figure out. Keep your mouth shut. She didn't die this time. It seems that we have to figure out a way to stop them from living in the village." The village chief had already stood up. Got up, walked up and down on the ground, pacing back and forth.

Now it is the autumn harvest, which is the season of busy farming. This is a place where we depend on the sky for food. We mainly grow sorghum and corn. The fields are all owned by the Qin family village. The owner of the village is Qin Baozhu, the son of the Qin family. For sub-renting, each household does not have much land, and Tian Liusu is only allocated 20% of an acre of land.

When she arrived at her own field, she saw two big borders lined up side by side, one row of sorghum and one row of corn, most of which were dead. She let her two children sit on the field to play, and she cut the corn first with a sickle.

In the past few days, she has discovered that something is wrong with the fields here. Although the stalks of sorghum and corn have turned yellow and mature, the ears of sorghum and corn cobs on them are still green, and the rows of them hang their heads, as if venting. An angry ball.

Most of the sorghum ears and corn are grates, and only a small half of them are plump. She has learned the characteristics of topography and terrain in her previous life. According to her understanding, although sorghum and corn are drought-tolerant and high-yield, they are not suitable for planting here.

She muttered that she would go back later and ask Mrs. Song what was going on. Looking at the two slumped fields, she sighed helplessly and started to harvest. Regarding the harvest, they only cut half a field of sorghum in the morning, and then led An Anle back home.

When she got home, she ground some sorghum rice with freshly cut sorghum ears and cooked some sorghum rice. She boiled some bitter vegetables dug from the field in boiling water, and mixed them with castor oil and vinegar garlic to make a cold dish. Let An Anlele wash her hands and eat, and the two children have been happily surrounding her. Although they are twins, An An obviously protects Lele everywhere and tries her best to be a good sister.

It was already past noon after eating, and there was not much work on the two plots. She was not going to go out in the afternoon. Tian Liusu let the two children play in the house, and she took time to go to the neighbor's sister-in-law Song's house.

Sister-in-law Song’s house is separated from her by an earthen wall, dozens of steps away, and Sister-in-law Song is pounding sorghum. Seeing her approaching from a distance, she is startled for a moment, and then the dustpan in her hand falls to the ground with a slap .

Tian Liusu stopped and looked at her with some embarrassment. She knew that her death and resurrection must have left her with sequelae.

"Oh, Mrs. Su is here." Sister-in-law Song let Tian Liusu into the room once she regained her composure.

"Sister-in-law, thanks to you that day, I haven't been able to come here to thank you."

"Miss Su, it's nothing, but you really scared me to death that day."

"Sister-in-law, it's all my fault that I didn't tell you before that I have this old fainting problem, which frightened you."

Sister-in-law Song saw that her answers were almost the same as before, and the horror in her heart gradually eased, and her words gradually became warmer.

"I came here because I wanted to ask you something, and I came a bit abruptly."

"Don't be obtrusive, don't be obtrusive, neighbors in the village should walk around more so as not to be unfamiliar."

Sister-in-law Song let her into the house, poured her a bowl of water, Tian Liusu took a sip from the bowl, and then asked, "Sister-in-law, why are the tassels on the sorghum and corn in our field still green, but the stalks are already green?" Yellow?"

"Miss Su, is it possible that you really came from the capital as people in the village say? You still don't know this after so long? We are called Tianshui Village here because of the Kongshan Spring in the back mountain, which is a natural spring. The people in our Tianshui Village rely on the spring water flowing out of the mountain spring. I heard that there are fire dragons in the ground here. The whole Tianshui Village is hot and very dry. If it rains, we can only watch all the crops die from drought. This year, there is little rain, so all the crops are severely drought, and the harvest is not good. If we pay the rent, we will not have much rations. This year’s life will be even more difficult.”

"Oh, then our rent will still be [-]% this year?"

"That's right, if you don't pay the rent, Mr. Qin won't rent us the land. If you don't rent the land, you will have to starve to death." Sister Song stared at Tian Liusu and saw that she was no different, so she was completely relieved.

"Oh, sister-in-law, my memory has been a little confused since I woke up. I forgot a lot of things for a while, so I came to ask you. Besides, my family's rent is [-]% more than other people's." Tian Liusu was afraid of Song's sister-in-law. Suspicious, said ambiguously.

"So it's like this. It's okay. If you forget something, just ask me. It's shameful for the village chief. Even if you are an outsider, you shouldn't be trying to force you to pay an extra [-]% of the rent."

(End of this chapter)